[Sca-cooks] A question about meat-

[Antonia Calvo]

Gretchen Beck wrote:
>> Apparently, Charlemagne's doctors were after him to eat only boiled
>> meats, but he loved roasted meat so that's what he ate, dammit! So I'm
>> wondering, does boiling vs roasting change the fat and/or cholesterol etc
>> ratios? 
>>     
>
> Isn't it a matter of humoral theory? Roasted meats would be dry (and those
> meats that started out "dry" in nature, dryer still), while boiled meats
> would be "wet" (or at least moist).
>   


I'm afraid I don't have a book on this subject to hand, but I believe 
boiled meats are considered cooler than roasted meats.  (AFAIK, the fat 
content wasn't the issue, and fat wasn't really condemned by medical 
science until centuries later.)

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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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